Joan Carles Roca Sans

JOAN CARLES ROCA SANS (Barcelona, 1946).
"Landscape.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
It has slight lack of polychrome in the upper left margin.
Measurements: 61 x 73 cm; 77 x 90 cm (frame).

Joan C. Roca Sans entered painting at the end of the 70's, when the avant-garde dominated the artistic scene and decided to swim against the current. He learns the basics of the craft at the Faculty of Fine Arts, paying special attention to classical Greece and the Renaissance, developing his own style with a postmodern will, devoting himself to the revision of certain aspects of the art of the past with content inspired by his own experiences. In the mid 80's, his proposals are in line with others appeared in Italy and Germany, where he spends long periods and absorbs the strength of the Central European tradition and synthesizes expressionism. From 2000 onwards, he incorporates different temporalities and reinvents the synthetic expressionism that he had already created fifteen years earlier, using the line of the drawing as a key element for the distribution of colors. He maintains and perfects his commitment to capture life, drawing and painting it to become a part of it. Although with pop and urban roots, his work is characterized by its internal coherence and an overflowing personal iconography. In this painter it is impossible to separate life and work, that is why each painting is a page of his biography. He has had more than one hundred solo exhibitions and his works have entered numerous public and private collections.
For the last ten years Roca Sans has been traveling the Mediterranean and explaining the experience of each trip by publishing fourteen episodes with a wide thematic repertoire through fictional stories and plastic supports that incorporate painting, sculpture and graphic novels with the application of new technologies, highlighting the fixation of light on supports such as marble and methacrylate as well as graphic novels in video format. It is the Ermoupoli project, which the artist cancels in 2017 to continue exploring through strict painting the polysemic availability of the image and seek a narrative in which each viewer can build their own story.